Last 24 hours we've had lots of issues with IV's and about to be required to get another one. Nutrition is still the priority. That's what our prayers are for right now.

The hospital is wonderful to keep the kids busy. She has played Family Feud on TV with all other patients watching, won BINGO, and had an artist draw a pic just for her. Pretty fair day.

Please continue to lift up Alyssa, her Mom & Dad, our family, the doctors and nurses up to our Lord.

Thank you all for your love, your prayers and your support with the t-shirts. Our family thanks you from the bottom of our hearts. Honestly. Thank you is not enough.

Nutrition is our main goal.

We are hoping the doctor will have a plan today.

Alyssa's spirits are up even though she is always in pain.

We are waiting on our miracle.

One night when Alyssa was having a bad night and they called me back to the hospital,

this is what I walked in to see.

It brought tears to my eyes.

Shannon, ( her mom) lays in the bed with her, holding her.

Bryan, ( her dad) literally sat up all night many nights.

A parents love for their child is beyond describing.

Just think.

This is how God is, with us.

*Update:

After being in 2 hospitals for a month,

Alyssa is home now with a feeding tube.

Thanks to the Cincinatti Childrens hospital they

were able to administer a picc line and

slowly get her body to accept nutrition

through the feeding tube.

She has had one flare since we have been home

where she had to be transported to the hospital

only for monitoring until it passed.

Please continue to pray for her.

This is our family you are praying for.

I can tell you that this Mom & Dad would give up

everything to make Alyssa better.

I've watched them. They have been amazing.

We would give up everything to make her better.

When something like this happens, houses, cars, jobs etc.

are nothing. The things we think are important

aren't important anymore.

You never know from day to day

what can happen in your family.

In our wildest days we would never

have thought we would be here.

Our family is asking you to keep praying.

We are a very close family and

this journey we are on is hard to understand.

Please keep praying while we are waiting on our miracle.

Where would we be without our Lord?

Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts.

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If you would like to purchase a t shirt please send an email to prayersforalyssa413@gmail.com. All sizes are available right now. Men, women and children. Please include size, quantity and whether you want it shipped or pick up. You will receive an invoice to pay through PayPal. If you are local, you can pay at pick up. Just order through email and state you will pay at pick up. The t shirts are 15.00 for local pick up. If you would like it shipped, your shirt will be 18.00 to cover shipping costs. All money raised will go to help them in their time of need. You also can send me private message. Thank you for praying for Alyssa and helping our family. For such a time as this.

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Granny's PERFECT Quilt

It is PERFECT. Perfectly PERFECT. Oh I don't mean perfect stitches, or perfect seams, or perfectly square. It is PERFECT for snuggling under on a rainy, dreary day. It is PERFECT for wrapping up a grandchild who is spending the night. It is PERFECT for making a house when draped over a chair & an end table. It is PERFECT for winding around and around a doll. It is PERFECT for covering up in the car when the air conditioning is on full blast. It is PERFECT for laying on the carpet and putting a baby down for his nap. God has touched Granny's heart and her hands, and her life. He has made her an artist. He has given her the gift of PERFECT quilts.

Written by Marlene B. about the quilt she bought from Granny. (Excerpt from Oct. 7, 2009 post on her blog)

Our Forever Farm

Our Little PEACE of Heaven

"Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is place in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into it's soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no others hands the sacred and holy trust given to her." -JR Miller

Our Prayer

Lord, help us to PLAN, PREPARE, & PLANT what you would have us to. Help us to WEED out of our lives what should not be there. Lord, help us to GROW through you in our relationships, our attitudes, and our lives, always being in your will. Help us to always walk with you. Let us always be thankful and content. Amen